Julia Verlyn (Judy) LaMarsh - Lawyer/politician/broadcaster/novelist; Liberal MP for Niagara
Falls ON 1960-68 including Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of Amateur
Sport (only woman in cabinet of Lester Pearson government) 1963-65 and Secretary of State
1965-68; set up Royal Commission on Status of Women in Canada 1967 and brought in
Broadcasting Act where CRTC replaced Bureau of Broadcast Governors 1968; author
autobiography Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage 1969; talk show host CKWX
Vancouver 1972-73; host This Country in the Morning CBC Radio national from
Toronto 1974-76. Died in Toronto October 27, 1980 at age 55

Laurier LaPierre - Author, journalist, commentator and educator; writer/host Inquiry(1961-64), This Hour Has Seven Days (1964-66)andMidnight (1975)
CBC Television Toronto 1962-78; host The Vancouver Show CKVU-TV Vancouver
1976-78; appointed Officer of the Order of Canada 1994; Chairman of the Board Telefilm
Canada 1998-2001; member of Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications
2001-current; appointed Canadian Senator 2001. Died December 17, 2012 at age 83

Maria LeRose - Host Vancouver Morning then co-host Vancouver Show
CKVU-TV 1980-86; CBC Radio/TV Vancouver including co-host/co-producer In the Company
of Women and family columnist Midday 1986-current; co-host/co-producer
programs on Knowledge Network, PBS, CTV Network, CITY-TV Toronto and CBC Newsworld;
co-producer/interviewer Life and Times CBC Television; Adjunct Professor faculty
of medicine UBC 2002-current; special program manager Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and
Education 2009-current; Secretary/Communications Parkgate Community Centre North Vancouver
current; co-director/producer Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids CBC-TV national
program Doc Zone 2010; television program producer specializing in educational
videos that focus on programs and strategies that foster Social and Emotional Learning in
children and youth current. LinkedIn profile

John Lindenlaub - Co-host with Bob Switzer cooking show Cuisine CBC-TV
Vancouver circa 1962-1966; heading of chef/cooking training courses BCIT Hospitality
Program 1960s-70s. Died in the Chilliwack area October 19, 2005 at age 85

Harvey Lowe - At age 13 winner of first World Yo-Yo Championship Competition
London UK 1932; Chinese Canadian Community Radio Pioneer hosted first Chinese Canadian
radio program Call of China CJOR Vancouver 1951-65; actor/entertainer; member
B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame Starwalk at the Orpheum; honoured at Asian
Canadian Writers' Workshop Vancouver November 1, 2003. Died in Vancouver March 11,
2009 at age 90.

OttoLowy -
Arrived in Vancouver from Czechoslovakia in 1948; began CBC career as a foreign-accented
bit player in a series called Adventures in Europe; 22-year host of The
Transcontinental CBC Radio Vancouver; involved in startup of The Arts Club Theatre in
Vancouver 1964; member B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame Starwalk at the Orpheum
1988; awarded Austrian Gold Cross of Merit for Science and the Arts 1994. Died May
28, 2002 at age 81

Laura Lynch - CISL Richmond 1983; reporter CBC Radio Prince Rupert 1983-84;
part time and fill in reporter CBC Radio Vancouver 1984-89; parliamentary reporter CBC
Radio Ottawa 1989-96; national reporter CBC Radio Vancouver 1996-99; awarded Nieman
Fellowship from Harvard University 1999-2000; CBC US correspondent based in Washington DC
2000-03; CBC European correspondent based in London UK 2003-current; winner of awards from
the Radio and Television News Directors' Association, Canadian Association of Journalists
and Law Society of BC. LinkedIn profile